Abstract
The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3) was developed under the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) to facilitate consistent technoeconomic assessments of desalination treatment trains. The WaterTAP3 is an analytically robust modeling tool that can be used to evaluate water technology cost, energy, environmental, and resiliency tradeoffs across different water sources, sectors, and scales. The model simulates steady-state water treatment train performance and costs including flow and constituent mass balance across unit processes, based on source water conditions, configurations of treatment technologies, and system-level techno-economic assumptions. Users can build a new treatment train by connecting any number of unit processes, specific for their context and system, or selecting a train from the treatment train library. The model contains various technical and cost parameter options for a range of treatment processes and a library of influent water quality characteristics for a variety of source waters and case studies. Users can customize water quality parameters to evaluate the technology performance in their context. The model can be set up for different assessment needs including simulation, optimization, and uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. The results from WaterTAP3 can help identify trade-offs among the different system performance metrics, with insight on how particular technologies
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- Developers:
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Miara, Ariel [1] ; Talmadge, Michael [1] ; Sitterly, Kurban [1] ; Evans, Anna [1] ; Huang, Zheng [1] ; Macknick, Jordan [1] ; McCall, James [1] ; Kurup, Parthiv [1] ; Akar, Sertac [1] ; Van Allsburg, Kurt [1]
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Release Date:
- 2021-06-08
- Project Type:
- Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Programming Languages:
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Python
- Licenses:
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing OfficePrimary Award/Contract Number:AC36-08GO28308
- Code ID:
- 65113
- Site Accession Number:
- NREL SWR-21-84
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Miara, Ariel, Talmadge, Michael, Sitterly, Kurban, Evans, Anna, Huang, Zheng, Macknick, Jordan, McCall, James, Kurup, Parthiv, Akar, Sertac, and Van Allsburg, Kurt.
Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3).
Computer Software.
https://github.com/NREL/WaterTAP3.
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office.
08 Jun. 2021.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20211001.1.
Miara, Ariel, Talmadge, Michael, Sitterly, Kurban, Evans, Anna, Huang, Zheng, Macknick, Jordan, McCall, James, Kurup, Parthiv, Akar, Sertac, & Van Allsburg, Kurt.
(2021, June 08).
Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3).
[Computer software].
https://github.com/NREL/WaterTAP3.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211001.1.
Miara, Ariel, Talmadge, Michael, Sitterly, Kurban, Evans, Anna, Huang, Zheng, Macknick, Jordan, McCall, James, Kurup, Parthiv, Akar, Sertac, and Van Allsburg, Kurt.
"Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3)." Computer software.
June 08, 2021.
https://github.com/NREL/WaterTAP3.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211001.1.
@misc{
doecode_65113,
title = {Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3)},
author = {Miara, Ariel and Talmadge, Michael and Sitterly, Kurban and Evans, Anna and Huang, Zheng and Macknick, Jordan and McCall, James and Kurup, Parthiv and Akar, Sertac and Van Allsburg, Kurt},
abstractNote = {The Water Technoeconomic Assessment Pipe-Parity Platform (WaterTAP3) was developed under the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) to facilitate consistent technoeconomic assessments of desalination treatment trains. The WaterTAP3 is an analytically robust modeling tool that can be used to evaluate water technology cost, energy, environmental, and resiliency tradeoffs across different water sources, sectors, and scales. The model simulates steady-state water treatment train performance and costs including flow and constituent mass balance across unit processes, based on source water conditions, configurations of treatment technologies, and system-level techno-economic assumptions. Users can build a new treatment train by connecting any number of unit processes, specific for their context and system, or selecting a train from the treatment train library. The model contains various technical and cost parameter options for a range of treatment processes and a library of influent water quality characteristics for a variety of source waters and case studies. Users can customize water quality parameters to evaluate the technology performance in their context. The model can be set up for different assessment needs including simulation, optimization, and uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. The results from WaterTAP3 can help identify trade-offs among the different system performance metrics, with insight on how particular technologies or systems promote pipe-parity. The flexibility and comprehensive scope of the tool makes it a promising solution to industry-wide water technoeconomic evaluations, leading to more informed water investment decisions and technologies. As a user-friendly, open-source platform, WaterTAP3 can be used by industry, academia, policymakers, planners, and those with or without extensive analytical experience. A publicly available graphical user interface is currently under development.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20211001.1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211001.1},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20211001.1}},
year = {2021},
month = {jun}
}